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This article refers to the shopping centre in Cardiff. For the shopping centre of the same name in Swansea, see St. David's Shopping Centre (Swansea)

The St. David's Centre (also known as St. David's Shopping Centre.[1]) is one of the principal shopping centres in the city centre of Cardiff, capital of Wales.

It is currently undergoing a £675m extension to bring Cardiff within the top five shopping destinations in the United Kingdom. The completed project will consist of the original Phase One, St David's Centre, adjoining St. David's Hall and Phase Two, given the development name, St David's 2.

In 2008-9, the annual footfall of the centre was 27 million, and is expected to rise to 33 million in 2009-10.[2]

The first phase of St. David's Centre

Original Logo

St. David's Centre was open to the public in January 1981, although it did not officially open until 24 March 1982. The centre has entrances on Queen Street and Working Street. It previously also had an entrance on Hill's Street, but this will eventually become an entrance to the new St. David's 2 shopping centre (below) on October 22, 2009. It is also joined internally with Queens Arcade. There are 3 thoroughfares within the centre; Town Wall, Cathedral Walk and St. David's Way.[3]

Sculpture of Gareth Edwards in St. David's Centre

The centre attracts an average footfall of 39,000,000 per annum[4] and has a core catchment of 2.4 million people. The 12 million tourists that visit the city annually help generate over £7.5 billion in retail spending. There are seventy-five individual shops and stores that cater for a broad demographic. The centre is anchored by Boots, Debenhams, Marks & Spencer and Bhs[4]. It is strategically situated close to central car parking and benefits from being close to public transport services. The centre is also adjacent to St. David's Hall. When the new area of the shopping centre is finished, it is expected to be one of the busiest shopping centres in the European Union, exceeding Birmingham's Bull Ring.

Extension of St. David's Centre (St. David's 2)

St. David's Centre, and the whole of the southern end of Cardiff city centre's shopping area, is being regenerated as part of the St David's 2 development.

St. David's 2 is a £675m extension of the centre, and has seen a large part of Cardiff's south city centre demolished, this included Oxford Arcade, St. David's Link, which included the Central Library, the NCP Tredegar Street multi-storey car park, Wales National Ice Rink, much of Bridge Street, which included the NCP Bridge Street multi-storey car park and Toys "R" Us (who relocated to Cardiff International Sports Village). The new development will consist of 3 main buildings in total; a new Central Library building, which is built on part of the Marriott Hotel car park, the John Lewis department store, which is built on the former Wales National Ice Rink, and the main shopping area, which is built on the form Oxford Arcade, St. David's Link and western side of Bridge Street, also included above the shopping area are apartments, called Hayes Apartments.

An earlier stage of construction of the project

St. David's 2 will add an extra Vorlage:Convert of retail space[5] to the city centre, in addition to the Vorlage:Convert John Lewis department store,[5] 9 other large stores, and a further 90 smaller shops in a two-tiered shopping mall will be built.[5] It will also create 3,000 car parking spaces, new bars and restaurants plus the new Vorlage:Convert Central Library and 4,500 permanent jobs.[6] The development will include 2 new arcades; Grand Arcade and Hayes Arcade.[7] The whole development is scheduled to open in autumn 2009. It is anticipated that the grand opening of the John Lewis department store will be in autumn 2009.[8] In May 2009, it was announced that completion was five months away. [9] On the 14 May WalesOnline announced that John Lewis Cardiff, the largest outside London will be opening on the 24 September 2009.[10]

Confirmed retailers include John Lewis, Debenhams (extension), New Look, Slater, Beaverbrooks, Fraser Hart, Goldsmith, Parkhouse the Jeweller, Claire's, Essential, Apple Store, Carphone Warehouse, O2, Vodafone, Guess, Clarks, Clinton Cards, H&M, Disney Store, Crew Clothing, Hugo Boss, Kurt Geiger, Reiss, T M Lewin, All Saints, Radley, Links of London, Crabtree & Evelyn, Ollie & Nic, Folli Follie[11], Urban Outfitters [12], G Star Raw [13], Cult[14], Fat Face, Quiksilver [15], L'Occitane, Thomas Sabo, Henleys, Jack Jones & Vero Moda, LK Bennett, Jane Norman[16], Thoughts Cards, Paperchase[17], Suits you[18], Warehouse, Karen Millen, Oasis, Coast, 7 Camicie[19], Fenchurch, Lambretta, Mothercare, Lakeland Limited, Pen Shop, Soletrader, Bose, Currys Digital, Faith Shoes, LabSport, SaltRock, Blue Inc, Wheels of Sport, Menkind, Sports Direct, Peacocks, Bon Marche, The Fragrance Shop, Principality Building Society, Transform Your Images, Game, Plain Lazy, Shoe Zone, Jacques Vert, Red5, Clarins, Madhouse, Officer Club and Hollister.

Stores in solicitors hands include: Adams Kids, Thomas Cook, Musto, Gap, Deichmann Shoes, Rush Hair, Aldo, Republic, Swatch Watches and Hamleys Toy Store[20].

Store in negotiations: Mango, Wallis, Gerry Webber, H Bar and Coffee.

Confirmed restaurants include Yo Sushi, Carluccio's, Cafe Rouge, Pizza Express, Chimichangas (Tex Mex), Nandos, Wagamama, Gourmet Burger Kitchen, Bellini's and Jamie's Italian.[21]

Restaurants in negotiations: TGI Friday's and All Things Chocolate.

Confirmed cafe operators include Pret a Manger, Starbucks Coffee (x2), Costa Coffee, Muffin Break, Vive Juice Bar, BBs, Cadwalladers Ice Creams, Wally's and Hey Potato.

As of May 2009 negotiations were concluded or underway on all but 23 of the approximately 140 cafes and stores in the refurbished Town Wall South and St Davids 2 extension.

The project, that it set to make Cardiff one of the top five shopping destinations in the United Kingdom, topped out on 27 January 2009.[22]

Cardiff Central Library

The new Central Library, which opened on 14 March 2009


The new Central Library opened on 14 March 2009.[23] The former permanent Central Library was located a few hundred yards north of the present building and was knocked down to make way for the St. David's 2 development. The new library has six floors totalling and area of 55,000ft² and 90,000 books.

Hayes Apartments

Hayes Apartments, as part of St. David's 2 development, will provide 304 apartments above the shopping centre. Seven high-rise towers built above the new shopping centre will house a mixture of studio flats and 1 and 2 bedroom apartments.[24]

On 21 November 2008, it was reported that the scheme had been hit by the ongoing economic recession, and despite initial interest, only eight of the 304 apartments had been sold.[25] The St Davids Partnership announced that all seven of the high rise tower blocks would be externally finished, but only one of them would be fitted-out - leaving the remaining six blocks as empty shells until the property market had recovered.[25]

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  1. ↑ St. David's Shopping Centre. Capital Shopping Centres, abgerufen am 18. September 2009.
  2. ↑ Shoppers numbers set to soar in Cardiff. Media Wales Ltd, abgerufen am 18. September 2009.
  3. ↑ St. David's Shopping Centre. Capital Shopping Centres, abgerufen am 10. Januar 2009.
  4. ↑ a b St. David's Shopping Centre. Capital Shopping Centres, abgerufen am 12. Dezember 2007.
  5. ↑ a b c St. David's 2. Capital Shopping Centres, abgerufen am 12. Dezember 2007.
  6. ↑ St Davids 2 Cardiff. Land Securities, abgerufen am 9. April 2008.
  7. ↑ St. David's 2 matches city blueprint. Capital Shopping Centres, abgerufen am 17. November 2008.
  8. ↑ John Lewis hits the heights in Cardiff...What happens next. icWales, abgerufen am 27. April 2008.
  9. ↑ http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/cardiff-news/2009/05/07/the-end-is-near-for-cardiff-s-st-david-s-2-91466-23562569/
  10. ↑ http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/cardiff-news/2009/05/14/john-lewis-names-date-for-opening-cardiff-store-91466-23624018/
  11. ↑ http://www.folli-follie.co.uk/accessibility/contact.html
  12. ↑ http://www.cardiff.gov.uk/objview.asp?Object_ID=14103&
  13. ↑ http://www.diffusiononline.co.uk/gstar-stores.php
  14. ↑ http://www.cardiff.gov.uk/objview.asp?Object_ID=14449&
  15. ↑ http://www.propertyweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=297&storycode=3144155&c=1
  16. ↑ http://www.retailchoice.com/CompanySearch/CompanyVacancies.aspx?Keywords=&CompanyId=209051&Directory=1
  17. ↑ http://www.paperchase.co.uk/index.php?f=appointments.htm
  18. ↑ http://suitsyou.co.uk/storelocator/store-details/id-1720
  19. ↑ http://www.7camicie.co.uk/storemanager.htm
  20. ↑ http://www.toynewsmag.com/news/31234/Hamleys-continues-expansion-plans
  21. ↑ Host of retailers Sign uo to endorse St David’s 2 as premier retailer destination. capital shopping centres, abgerufen am 31. März 2009.
  22. ↑ Milestone for new shopping centre. BBC News, abgerufen am 27. Januar 2009.
  23. ↑ First look at new 'green' library. BBC, abgerufen am 18. September 2009.
  24. ↑ The Apartments. St David’s Partnership, abgerufen am 16. Oktober 2008.
  25. ↑ a b Skyscraper blocks to remain empty at St Davids 2. Walesonline, abgerufen am 21. November 2008.
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